Disco, I've been reading about your war here. Do you have any updates?
I just poured 2ml/gal on all my girls today. Gonna hit rooms with pyrethrum bombs next. On that, does anyone know if the full-power P-bombs are safe around the plants? (4%
pyrethrins, 16% of the other chemical - same ones as in evergreen, but smaller dose) Or should I pull them out and put them back when its done?
Would love to hear how things turned out for you, Disco!
-ol
I was just coming to give an update of my battle for the last week. I won!!! Those Root Aphids are no match for Evergreen with a Sevin foliar spray! (But I did catch it very early).
What I did was fill a 5 gallon bucket with 4 gallons of water. I added 10ml to this 4 gallons (and 2.5 mil of PH down) to make a slightly stronger mix than what is in the res. I spent about 3 or 4 minutes dunking each plant in the bucket (10-15 dunks each, this takes like 40-45 minutes to do 6 plants). I dunk them all the way until it is the bottom of the trunk is submerged, then pull it out and let all the water flush through it and wash off the hanging roots. I keep dunking it until all the roots look white again, or at least white-ish.
I have done this 3 times now, every 3 days. Last night was the last time, and I am pretty sure there are no more Root Aphids. I am planning on dunking one more time in 2 days, but after that the roots are going to become too long (they will all entangle with each other in my Rainforest). But I am pretty sure the bugs are all gone anyway. Oh, and of course I run 2ml per gallon in the res.
I only sprayed with the Sevin once a day for the first few days. It started to leave a white residue on the leaves and I've been spraying with alch/water since to wash it off.
My problems now are that I think I might have the virus, because leaves might still be yellowing... but I still can't tell for sure if they are or not. It's nothing like when I had the bugs, if they are still yellowing/browning it is happening at a snails pace now.
The other thing I that this is only my third grow. My first was successful, but I've come to realize that I've been ignoring root health, the roots in my first grow were bad even though it worked. My roots now are covered with brown slime, but it washes off in the Evergreen dunks. I think it's because I used
Hygrozyme in my RDWC as part of this bug attack and only later read it's not a good thing to use in RDWC.
I want to switch to a "sterile resivior". I think I can achieve healthy roots that way. Before I spend a lot on DM Zone (just assuming it's expensive, haha) I was going to try the concept with 29%
Hydrogen Peroxide on my next water change. Can anyone tell me how many ml per gallon of 29%
Hydrogen Peroxide I am supposed to use?
I am using GH full "expert" schedule with RO water and GH
CalMag. Right now there is also Subculture B and M,
Hygrozyme, and Evergreen in the mix. For my next grow I will be mostly out of GH and plan on working out a good sterile mix based on H&G Aquaflakes that puts as few products into the res as needed, but for now I need to make a sterile GH mix.
